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Author Patterson, Scott, author

Title Learn AWS serverless computing : a beginner's guide to using AWS Lambda, Amazon API Gateway, and services from Amazon Web Services / Scott Patterson
Published Birmingham, UK : Packt Publishing, 2019

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Description 1 online resource (1 volume) : illustrations
Contents Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright and Credits -- About Packt -- Contributors -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Section 1: Why We're Here -- Chapter 1: The Evolution of Compute -- Understanding enterprise data centers -- The physical data center -- Colocating our gear -- Cloud born -- Exploring the units of compute -- Physical servers -- scale at the physical server layer -- Virtual machines -- density efficiencies achieved by virtualizing the hardware -- Containers -- better density with faster start times -- Functions -- best density by abstracting the runtime
Understanding software architectures -- Monolith -- single code base -- N-tier -- achieve individual scale -- Microservices -- do one thing and do it well -- Nanoservices with serverless -- Predicting what comes next -- Summary -- Questions -- Further reading -- Chapter 2: Event-Driven Applications -- Understanding modern applications -- Event-command -- Event-driven or event-first -- Evolution of integration patterns -- Enterprise Application Integration -- ESB -- Serverless integration -- Automation with serverless -- Scripts on a server -- Configuration management -- Automation as a Service
Event, content, and context objects -- The programming model -- Runtimes -- Writing, building, and packaging -- Deployment -- Testing, monitoring, and debugging -- Writing your first Lambda function -- Hello, world! in the console -- Hello, world! using the command line -- Summary -- Questions -- Further reading -- Chapter 4: Adding Amazon API Gateway -- Technical requirements -- Introducing Amazon API Gateway -- Serverless APIs -- Deployment options -- WebSockets -- Use cases -- Securing an API -- IAM permissions and policies -- Authentication with Cognito -- Lambda authorizers -- Certificates
Building, deploying, and managing APIs -- Building APIs -- Deploying APIs -- Throttling and quota management -- Monitoring and logging -- Building a Lambda-backed API -- Hello world using the console -- Hello world via the CLI -- Summary -- Questions -- Further reading -- Chapter 5: Leveraging AWS Services -- Technical requirements -- Using Amazon S3 with Lambda -- Revision -- S3 as an event source -- Interacting using the SDK -- Using Amazon DynamoDB with Lambda -- The basics -- Triggering a Lambda function -- Interacting using the SDK -- Using AWS Step Functions as an Orchestrator
Summary Questions -- Further reading -- Section 2: Getting Started with AWS Lambda Functions -- Chapter 3: The Foundations of a Function in AWS -- Technical requirements -- Learning about AWS Lambda -- Fundamentals of a function -- Invoking a function -- Pricing model -- Ephemeral state -- High availability -- Service limits -- Use cases -- Setting up security -- Execution policies -- Function policies -- Invoking Lambda functions -- Invocation types -- Event sources -- Execution environment -- Environment variables -- Anatomy of a Lambda function -- Handler function
Amazon Web Services provides the tools and technologies to build and deploy modern cloud-native applications. This book will help you learn all the necessary skills to develop your own scalable and resilient serverless solutions. Get up to speed with code examples, pro tips, use cases, and then tie it all together using the Serverless Framework
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Notes Online resource; title from title page (Safari, viewed May 28, 2020)
Subject Amazon Web Services (Firm)
SUBJECT Amazon Web Services (Firm) fast
Subject Cloud computing.
Application software -- Development.
Web services.
Web services
Application software -- Development
Cloud computing
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781789959956
1789959950
Other Titles Learn Amazon Web Services serverless computing